Thread by @GuruAnaerobic

If you are only doing strength training and cardio as you age, you are missing out on a crucial element which keeps you robust and dynamic.

The ability to generate and tolerate repeated high muscular output - this is the superpower of age not the former.

https://twitter.com/GuruAnaerobic/status/1548299238005649409

The ability to generate repeated high-level output is what goes first as you get older, so people hide in strength training and Zone2 type exercise; neither of which are that hard

Try 100rep squats; 15 x 200m with one min between; 10 x fast 30-40second hills. Do them judiciously

Start feeling the burn of acidosis; your heart pumping out of your chest.

This is what older strength trainers avoid. This is what old cardio zone 2 weaklings avoid. Hard-Repeated-Effort. You need strength, you need endurance, you you need to bear pain, you need a tough mindset

Because I am older, I know this, despite there being hardly any research on it. I see hardly anyone my age who can bear the pain of O2 debt and H+.

I see it with older supposedly strong or aerobically fit individuals; they shy away from high-level prolonged effort. It hurts.

You need to do a workout which is lung-bursting, strength sapping and burning; you need to retain the ability to bear this. Retain the psychology to undertake this.

It's the fountain of a robust and dynamic older age